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    A resume revamp doesn’t have to be intimidating. In seven simple steps, your resume can reflect the better, brighter, more accomplished IT manager you’ve become.

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    Is Web-based training the answer to high staff turnover in the call centre industry? Examine why one company believes this to be the case.

  • Strike vote fuels IBM Australia debate

    A potential impending strike action at one of IBM Australia's Sydney facilities has sparked debate about whether it was still worth striving to work at one of the largest and most prestigious technology firms in Australia and the world.

  • IT careers: Less confusion means more students

    Young people are not choosing technology careers because of confusion rampant across IT, according to senior industry figures.

  • Australia's got talent! But turns to UK for IT skills

    Australian vendors, recruiters and government agencies arrived in London over the weekend armed with a growing list of IT specialists from the old country needed Down Under, as part of the federal government-hosted Australia Needs Skills expo.

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    Closing the skills gap

    Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Women in ICT a rare breed

    A quick scan of almost any ICT department, ICT conference or vendor environment confirms that women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Services the secret to our future

    Today, we exist in an economy where the services sector is the economy.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Skills in short supply

    My interview with the government's ICT skills and professional development taskforce last week shed new light on what exactly is missing in the industry's skills shortage.

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    2Vouch refers well

    Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".

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  • Seven ways to revamp your resume

    A resume revamp doesn’t have to be intimidating. In seven simple steps, your resume can reflect the better, brighter, more accomplished IT manager you’ve become.

  • Web-based training decreases staff turnover

    Is Web-based training the answer to high staff turnover in the call centre industry? Examine why one company believes this to be the case.

  • Top 10 reasons you shouldn't be a project manager

    You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not for everyone. Many people have some of the traits to be a good project manager, but they also have many traits that make them a bad fit for the position.

  • 10 reasons why you shouldn't be an IT manager

    At some stage, many people will find themselves asking why they left that great little job to take a turn in the management ranks. Let's take a few minutes to consider how you can avoid becoming a member of this group.

  • Staying afloat in a skills storm

    Professionals caught up in the ebb and flow in IT demand are well aware that today's "hot property" can quickly find themselves on the skills scrap-heap. ZDNet Australia offers these tips to help you avoid career obsolesence.

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    In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his current...

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  • People are the problem: 3 HR management packages tested

    Does your company's human resource management functions need to be automated? We look at what you need to consider, and three packages to help you do it.

  • Opinion: "Buy more stuff!"

    In front of 95,000 people and a prime time television audience, John Polson, creative director for the Intel-Tropfest short-film festival, donned a figurative candy-striped suit to became technology's spruiker for a few moments at Sydney’s Domain last Sunday. He read out the Intel prize (a PC package) for best cinematograhper with whiz-bang enthusiasm... but the crowd wasn't having a bar of it.

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